Tom Wheatcroft is 80. His has been a life full of incident and struggle, success and joy. The achievements Therein are too numerous to list, but his most intense period,…

Beyond the brave I was too young (nine) and far too wrapped in my support of Mr Hunt to grasp the full enormity of it. That said, I still can't…

Today, Formula 1 teams expect two years' warning of technical rule changes. Thirty years ago, they got four months. Cue panic - then a prime example of pure inspiration writer…

Ecurie Ecosse's proud Le Mans tradition - it won there in 1956 and '57 - meant that the team's mid-1980s reincarnation was geared solely around La Sarthe. That it failed…

One of the BTCC's most easy-going drivers got on the 'phone to argue his case recently. Then he proved it on the track. Paul Fearnley eats a dollop of humble…

Clark, Brabham, Cosworth, Lotus… The Swinging Sixties was indeed a time of change, when F1’s non-championship races acted as both useful proving ground and talent nursery By Paul Fearnley Michael…

A thrilling three-way era battle for the Patrick Lindsay Memorial Trophy was just one of the highlights of the VSCC's season-opener, the GP Itala Trophy Race Meeting. The frantic scrap…

WHEN TO BACK OFF After all those GP wins (I bet even he couldn't list them), poles, fastest laps, laps led, miles led, points (his tally is a half-decent pinball…

Got a pretty good idea how the 2002 Formula One season might pan out? Yeah, me too. Schumacher and Ferrari will set the pace, win the bulk of the races…

There is a part of the Nürburgring that few have even heard of. Paul Fearnley drives it and discovers that it's used to being ignored photography by Walter Bäumer Nürburgrings…

There are racing drivers who do not look like racing drivers – for example, Bobby Rahal, bless his fireproof socks – and there are those who do. I cannot cite…

So what makes Goodwood's Revival Meeting so good — the fantastic cars, the period dress, the Spits and 'Stangs scudding across a Battle of Britain skyscape? Yes, yes, all of…